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Ellesmere Port (/ ˈ ɛ l z m ɪər / ELZ-meer) is a port town in the Cheshire West and Chester borough in Cheshire, England.Ellesmere Port is on the south eastern edge of the Wirral Peninsula, six miles (ten kilometres) north of Chester, on the bank of the Manchester Ship Canal.
In 2007, as part of a revival of some industries, ports and shipbuilding in Britain, Ellesmere Port docks were re-opened. In 2008 the site of Ellesmere Port's operational dock - including over 70 acres (280,000 m 2) of the waterfront area (immediately to the north-west of Ellesmere Port Historic Dock and Conservation Area and to the south-east of the Bridgewater Paper Works) - was the subject ...
The town of Ellesmere Port had been a municipal borough from 1955 to 1974 with a borough council. [11] The first elections to the new Ellesmere Port Borough Council created under the Local Government Act 1972 were held in 1973, initially operating as a shadow authority until the new arrangements came into effect on 1 April 1974.
Cheshire Oaks Designer Outlet is an outlet centre in Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, England.. Located off Junction 10 of the M53, it is the largest outlet centre in the United Kingdom, with 145 stores and the first designer outlet village in Europe, [1] when it opened in March 1995. [2]
Ellesmere, Shropshire, a market town in Shropshire, England Ellesmere Castle; Ellesmere Rural, a civil parish to the west; Ellesmere Park, area of Eccles, Greater Manchester, England; Ellesmere Port, an industrial town in Cheshire, England; Ellesmere Port and Neston, a former district and borough in Cheshire, England
The canal starts from Ellesmere Port on the River Mersey traversing the Wirral peninsula to Chester. This stretch, which was completed in 1797, was originally part of the unfinished Ellesmere Canal. The industrial waterway was intended to connect the Port of Liverpool on the River Mersey to the River Severn at Shrewsbury via the North East ...
The Birkenhead Built-up area is an urban area in England, which covers the towns of Birkenhead, Wallasey, Bebington and Ellesmere Port. This built up area covers Merseyside and Cheshire. It is defined for certain statistical purposes by NOMIS (National Online Manpower Information System), within the Office for National Statistics.
The building continued to serve as the local administrative headquarters after the area became part of the new Borough of Ellesmere Port and Neston in 1974. [13] However, council meetings continued to be held at Whitby Hall until the early 1990s, when the council offices were extended.